Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
SHERYL SANDBERGAnd anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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